- [Mrs. Z-K] Hi scholars.
Welcome to second grade on Read Write Roar.
Today, we're going to focus on our big question: what processes change the Earth?
Hmm.
We'll read, write and sort words with the /ch/ sound today, as well as listen to a tall tale about Paul Bunyan and his family and how they created the landforms on Earth.
But did they really?
Hmm.
So go ahead and get your paper and your pencil and let's get ready to Read Write Roar.
- This program is made possible in part by (whimsical music) the Michigan Department of Education, the state of Michigan and the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation.
Additional support by: And by viewers like you.
Thank you.
(bubbly music) - Hi, I'm Mrs. Z-K, and today we are going to read, write and sort words with the /ch/ sound.
Can I hear you say that?
/ch/ Nice job.
One way to spell the /ch/ sound in a word is with a T C H. Hmm.
Did you know that these three letters can work together to make just one sound?
Yeah.
What's that sound again?
/ch/.
Nice job.
We usually use the TCH spelling pattern when we have a one syllable word where there's a short vowel and then immediately following that short vowel is the /ch/ sound.
We're going to do some examples, but before let's go ahead and review our short vowel sounds.
What letter is this?
What's its short sound.
// Nice job.
What letter is this?
What's its short sound?
// What letter is this?
What's its short sound?
/-/ What letter is this?
What's its short sound.
/O/ And what letter is this?
And what's its short sound?
/m/ Nice job scholars.
You remember your vowels and their short sounds.
Well, let's look here at these examples.
We have a word here and we have the TCH spelling pattern.
Here's our vowel.
We know it's going to be a short vowel sound.
We have a blend /sk/ and then we have TCH.
What sound is that going to make?
/ch/ Nice job.
So we have /sk/ // /ch/.
What word?
Sketch.
Nice job.
Sketch only has one vowel sound, so it's a one syllable word.
Let's look at this word.
We have a vowel here.
We have our TCH spelling pattern.
What sound is that TCH going to make?
/ch/ Nice job.
All right, let's figure this word out.
/p/ // /ch/ What word?
Patch.
Nice work.
Patch also only has one vowel sound, therefore it's just a one syllable word.
Sketch is something when you draw really quick, just to sketch a picture.
And a patch could be, if you need to patch something up.
Maybe it tore, then you need to just put a patch over the top.
Yeah.
Let's go ahead and get our paper ready because we're going to get ready to read, write, and sort those words I was telling you about.
So you need your paper and you're going to draw one line down the middle.
And then on one side, we're going to write C H. I'm sure you all knew that.
C H also says the /ch/ sound.
And on the other side, we're going to write our new spelling pattern that we're talking about today, which is T C H. Which also makes the /ch/ sound.
(transitional tune) All right, scholars.
Well, I'm going to tell you about how I am going to get ready for a picnic.
Do you know what a picnic is?
Hmm.
You're definitely right about that.
You definitely need food.
And where are picnic's held at?
Outside.
You're right!
So you need to be outside with some food and you can have a picnic.
Absolutely.
Well, during this story, I'm going to tell you about me getting ready for a picnic.
There are going to be some words with the /ch/ sound.
Mhmm.
And on your paper, when we hear one of those /ch/ sounds, we're going to figure out is that word being spelled with a C H /ch/ or a T C H /ch/.
And then we're going to write it in the right column.
Are you ready?
I hope so.
Here we go.
Well this teacher, Mrs. Z-K has decided to go on a picnic.
Mhmm.
That word is teacher.
Teacher, /tEEchUH/.
Before the /ch/ sound I'm hearing // the long E sound, not a short vowel sound.
That's why it's only spelled with the CH.
Right?
So where are we going to write teacher at?
Under the CH column.
Nice job.
Let's go ahead and write teacher under CH.
So now I have to get some things ready.
Did you see my nice basket that I'm going to use to take my things for my picnic?
Yeah.
And I've decided that I'm going to take some chicken nuggets.
My kids love chicken nuggets.
I'm going to put those right back here in the back of my basket.
Do you hear a word that has the /ch/ sound?
Chicken?
You're right.
Oh, and you know, what's so special about this word chicken?
Is that it starts with the /ch/ sound.
When a word starts with a /ch/ sound, there can't be a short vowel right before it.
Therefore we know always when a word or a syllable starts with a /ch/ sound, it's always going to be the CH spelling pattern.
Mhmm.
Well, chicken.
Where are we going to put it?
Under CH again?
All right.
Go ahead and write your word, chicken.
When I was packing up the chicken nuggets, I remembered that my daughter won't eat them unless I have some ketchup to go with them.
So I better put that in the basket, as well.
Hmm.
Did you hear a /ch/ word?
Ketchup?
Let's look at that word.
Hmm.
In ketchup, [KECH] + [UHP], there are two syllables.
Let's look at this first syllable.
/k/ // /ch/ There is a short vowel sound before /ch/.
You see that?
And we see that it is spelled with a TCH.
So where are we going to write the word ketchup at?
You got it!
Under the TCH spelling pattern.
All right.
Also on this picnic to go with those chicken nuggets, we're going to bring some chips.
Let me put those right in there.
You already heard the /ch/ word.
You're absolutely right.
And the word was chips.
What do we notice about chips?
Where's that /ch/ sound at?
/ch/ /-/ /ps/.
At the beginning.
Do you remember what we said about the /ch/ sound being at the beginning?
Always spelled with the CH.
Where are we going to write the word chips at?
On the CH column.
Nice work.
(bubbly music) So with the chicken nuggets and chips, we're also going to bring some cheese.
I'm going to set those right in there.
Cheese is a /ch/ word.
Isn't it.
Ooh, and what do we notice about cheese?
/ch/ /ch/ /ch/ /eez/.
/Ch/ is at the beginning again.
So it's spelled with a?
You're right scholar.
So where are you going to write the word cheese?
Under the CH column.
Nice work.
Well then I thought, okay, so we eat, you know, our chicken nuggets, our chips, and our cheese, and then we want something sweet.
So I had to make a fresh batch of cookies.
I really did.
Oh, yummy, delish!
So, but cookies, doesn't start with the /ch/?
Did you hear a /ch/ word?
I made a fresh batch of cookies.
Batch?
Ohhh.
Yes, batch.
Let's look at this word.
/buh/ // /ch/.
There is a short vowel sound, and that is why we have the TCH spelling pattern.
Where are we gonna write the word batch?
Absolutely scholars.
Under our TCH column.
Well you know what, I've decided, we said we were going to be outside for our picnic, but it's so nice.
We're going to go ahead and drive all the way to the beach for our picnic.
Yeah.
So nice out.
Let's go to the beach.
Oh, well, let's look at this word.
/buh/ // /ch/.
That's a vowel, team.
So it has a long E sound.
A long E sound is not a short vowel sound.
That's why we don't have the TCH spelling pattern.
/buh/ // /ch/.
Where are we going to write the word beach?
Under the CH.
Nice work.
All right.
I have to also pack up a blanket, because once I get to the beach, I'm going to have to stretch this blanket out for us to sit on.
Hmm.
Blanket doesn't have a CH.
But you know what does?
Stretch.
We have to stretch that blanket out.
We have to sit on it and we have to put the food on it.
Let's look at this word.
We have a nice big blend at the beginning.
/str/ // /ch/.
Right before this /ch/, there's a //.
A short vowel sound.
And that's why it's spelled with a TCH pattern.
Where are we going to write the word stretch?
Under our TCH column.
Nice work scholars.
Oh, and since we're outside, I cannot forget the bug spray.
Hmm-mm When bugs are around, we get super, super itchy.
Let's look at this word.
/-/ /ch/ //.
/-/ is a short vowel sound, and then the /ch/ comes right after.
And that's why we spell it with a TCH.
Where are we going to write the word itchy?
Of course, under the TCH side.
(bubbly music) Amazing job scholars.
Wow.
You have spelled and sorted words with the /ch/ sound.
Now, when you come to a word and you're trying to spell it, that has the /ch/ sound, think about our rule.
Does it have a short vowel sound right before the /ch/?
And if so, remember, you can spell that word with a TCH.
Mhmm.
Go ahead, and maybe you can start planning your own picnic.
When you start putting things in your basket, think of any of those things that have a /ch/ sound in them.
(chill electronic music) Real quick scholars.
I have a challenge for you.
Can you snap your fingers on your right hand?
(fingers snap twice) Can you wink your right eye?
Can you snap the fingers on your left hand?
(fingers snap twice) Can you wink your left eye?
Here's your challenge.
Can you snap the fingers on your right hand and wink your left eye at the same time?
(fingers snap twice) Ooh, switch.
(fingers snap twice) Can you do it faster?
(fingers continuously snap) Keep trying.
(chill electronic music) - [Mrs. Fuller] Hi scholars.
I'm Mrs. Fuller.
Today, we're going to be reading a story called The Bunyans, written by author Audrey Wood, illustrated by David Shannon and read with permission from Scholastic Incorporated.
The Bunyans is a type of a story called a tall tale.
A tall tale is a fictional or made up story that stretches the truth.
As I read today, I want us to listen for elements that make this story a tall tale.
Those include, the main character has a regular job, but is larger than life in size and abilities.
Details in the story are exaggerated beyond belief.
And exaggerated means to make larger or to stretch.
When things are exaggerated in a story that's also called a hyperbole.
The main character encounters a problem, and solves it in a funny way.
And the characters use common language and resemble everyday people.
Also, as we read, I'd like us to focus on our big question, which is, what processes change the Earth?
So let's listen as the Bunyan family introduces us to several of the amazing landforms across the United States.
And as I read, I want you to think about, is the process used to make this landform true, or is it exaggerated?
Let's get started.
(bubbly music) Storytellers note.
Now, I suppose you've heard about the mighty logger Paul Bunyan, and his great blue ox named Babe.
In the early days of our country, Paul and Babe cleared the land for settlers, so farms and cities could spring up.
And you probably know that Paul was taller than a Redwood tree, stronger than 50 grizzly bears and smarter than a library full of books.
But you may not know that Paul was married and had two fine children.
One day when Paul Bunyan was out clearing a road through the forest of Kentucky a great pounding began to shake the Earth.
Looking around, Paul discovered an enormous hole in the side of a hill.
The lumberjack pulled up an acre of dry cane and fashioned a torch to light his way.
Paul climbed inside the hole and followed the sound underground for miles until he came to a large cavern glistening with crystals.
By the flickering light of his torch, he saw a gigantic woman banging a behemoth pickax against a wall.
It was love at first sight.
I'm Carrie McIntie, the gigantic woman said.
I was sitting on the hill when my lucky wishbone fell down a crack into the Earth.
I've been digging all day trying to find it.
With a grin on his face as wide as the Missouri River, Paul reached into his shirt pocket.
I've got one too he said, pulling out his lucky wishbone.
Marry me, Carrie, and we'll share mine.
Carrie agreed and their wedding invitations were mailed out right away.
The invitations were so large, only one needed to be sent to each state.
Everyone could read them for miles.
The invitations said you are cordially invited to the mammoth wedding of Paul Bunyan and Carrie McIntie.
The couple were married in the enormous crystal chamber that Carrie had carved, and after the ceremony, folks began to call it Mammoth Cave.
The giantess had dug more than 200 miles making it the longest cave in the world, so the name fit perfectly.
Paul and Carrie settled down on a farm in Maine and soon, there were two new Bunyan's.
While Paul Bunyan traveled with his logging crew Ma Bunyan worked on the farm and cared for their jumbo boy named Little Jean and their gigantic girl named Teeny.
One morning, when Pa Bunyan was home between jobs, Ma Bunyan cooked up a hearty breakfast of pancakes and syrup.
When Teeny was wrestling with her big purple puma named Slink, she accidentally dumped a silo of syrup on her head.
Teeny's hair was so sweet, bears crawled in and burrowed deep into her curls.
Tried as they might, Ma and Pa Bunyan couldn't wash them out.
We'll need a forceful shower of water to get rid of those varmints Ma Bunyan declared.
Pa Bunyan had an idea.
He placed his daughter on Babe, and he led them to the Niagara River in Canada.
The gargantuan father scooped out a huge hole in the middle of the river bed.
As the great river roared down into the deep hole.
Teeny cried out in delight, Niagara Falls!
Teeny showered in the waterfall and the pesky bears were washed downstream.
I want you to look at that picture and how large Teeny is compared to the people on the boat.
So the characters in the story are larger than life.
You can see that in the drawings.
When Little Jean was five, he wanted to work too.
So he followed his Pa out to his logging camp in Montana.
Thinking his son was too young to do much of anything, Paul set Little Jean down in a barren canyon in Utah to play for the day.
When the lumberjack went to fetch him, he couldn't believe his eyes.
Little Jean had carved out the canyon into a wonderland of fanciful shapes.
Paul Bunyan got tongue tied and said, that's a mighty bryce nanyon coy.
I mean, that's a mighty nice canyon boy.
Somehow part of the mix up stuck.
To this day, the canyon is known as Bryce Canyon.
After all the sculpting, Little Jean's shoes were full of sand.
Pa knew Ma Bunyan wouldn't want her clean floors dirtied up.
So he told Little Jean to sit down and empty out his shoes.
The sand from Little Jean's shoes blew away on the Eastern wind and settled down a state away.
It covered a valley, 10 miles long, making sand dunes, 800 feet tall.
Everyone knows that's how the great sand dunes of Colorado came to be.
One summer, Little Jean and Teeny wanted to go to the beach.
Ma Bunyan told them to follow a river to the ocean, but all the rivers flowed West back then.
So they missed the Atlantic Ocean and ended up on the other side of the country instead.
Ma Bunyan tracked them out to the Pacific Ocean, where she found Teeny riding on the backs of two blue whales.
And Little Jean carving out 50 zigzag miles on the California Coast.
When Ma Bunyan saw what her son had done, she exclaimed what's the big idea, sir!?
From that time on the scenic area was known as Big Sur.
Ma Bunyan knew she had to put up a barrier to remind her children not to wander off.
So on the way home, everyone pitched in and built the Rocky Mountains.
Teeny gathered up and sorted the rivers, letting some flow East and others West.
After that, the children had no trouble following the Eastern rivers down to the Atlantic Ocean.
And when they wanted to go exploring Ma Bunyan would call out now don't cross the Continental Divide children.
The best thing about camping is sleeping outdoors.
The worst thing is not having enough hot water.
That's why the Bunyan's always camped in Wyoming.
By the time their camping years were over, Ma Bunyan had poked more than 300 holes in the ground with her pickax and released tons of hot water from geysers.
But Ma got tired of poking so many holes.
So she made a Geyser that blew every hour on the hour.
After that, there was a steady supply of hot water to keep the giants clothes and dishes sparkling clean.
Teeny named the geyser Old Faithful.
And to this day, Old Faithful still blows its top every hour in Yellowstone National Park.
As our great country grew up, so did the Bunyan children.
When the kids left home, Ma and Pa Bunyan retired to a wilderness area where they still live happily.
So today our story is a tall tale; a fictional or made up story that stretches the truth.
Let's see how our story fits as a tall tale.
The main character has a regular job.
In the story what is Paul Bunyan's job?
That's right.
He's a lumberjack.
And the characters in the story are larger than life in size and ability.
We saw the picture of Teeny compared to the picture of the men in the boat.
Details of the story are exaggerated beyond belief.
One exaggeration is that Little Jean's shoes were full of sand that created a sand dune, 800 feet tall.
The main characters encounter a problem and solve it in a funny way.
When Teeny dumped syrup in her hair and it got full of bears, that's a problem.
And they were able to wash it out, when Paul Bunyan created the Niagara Falls.
The characters in the story use everyday language and resemble everyday people.
The Bunyan family certainly did that.
Thank you for learning with us today and see if you can find time to do some research on the landforms that we learned about in the story.
And see if you can figure out what process was used to create those landforms.
I'll see you next time on Read Write Roar.
- This program is made possible in part by (whimsical music) the Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan and the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation Additional support by: and by viewers like you.
Thank you.
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